Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the > cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed > to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files > directly and (somehow) used tar to extract files rather than running > setup.exe.
> Can anyone offer any explanation about this? Well, I've never tried to install via anything but the setup.exe. However, it is not obvious to me how to just get a single package that way. The last few times I tried to do that, I ended up getting a massive amount of stuff. Maybe some of your ftp users are similarly confused. How do you get just 1 package via setup.exe? -- John M. Adams -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
